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Word Portraits of Famous Writers

Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships, She presents for us here, not literary criticism nor biographical sketches, but "word portraits," shore vignettes of a persons physical appearance and elements of behavior or personality. These are all drawn from many sources -- biographies, newspapers, or personal friends of the authors. Some descriptions are based on paintings or drawings, but the majority are derived from personal acquaintance. Thus, we have a unique view of these famous artists that we seldom read. - Summary by Larry Wilson

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Introduction (Larry Wilson)
Joseph Addison (Nemo)
Harrison Ainsworth (Nemo)
Jane Austen (Kathleen Moore)
Francis, Lord Bacon (Kathleen Moore)
Joanna Baillie (ADKreader)
Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield (Sonia)
Jeremy Bentham (Phil Schempf)
Richard Bentley (Michael Fassio)
James Boswell (Kathleen Moore)
Charlotte Brontë (Tomas Peter)
Henry, Lord Brougham (Adele Pooley)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Eva Davis)
John Bunyan (Larry Wilson)
Edmund Burke (Steve C)
Robert Burns (Nemo)
Samuel Butler (Adele Pooley)
George, Lord Byron (Sonia)
Thomas Campbell (Adele Pooley)
Thomas Carlyle (Nemo)
Thomas Chatterton (Michael Fassio)
Geoffrey Chaucer (Sonia)
Philip, Lord Chesterfield (Adele Pooley)
William Cobbett (Steve C)
Hartley Coleridge (Adele Pooley)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Michael Fassio)
William Collins (Phil Schempf)
William Cowper (Nemo)
George Crabbe (Phil Schempf)
Daniel De Foe (Michael Fassio)
Charles Dickens (Nemo)
Isaac D’Israeli (Adele Pooley)
John Dryden (Steve C)
Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot) (April6090)
Henry Fielding (Tomas Peter)
John Gay (Tomas Peter)
Edward Gibbon (Adele Pooley)
William Godwin (Amy Gramour)
Oliver Goldsmith (Michael Fassio)
David Gray (ADKreader)
Thomas Gray (ADKreader)
Henry Hallam (ADKreader)
William Hazlitt (Eva Davis)
Felicia Hemans (April6090)
James Hogg (Kay Sun)
Thomas Hood (Demosthenes)
Theodore Hook (Kay Sun)
David Hume (Michael Fassio)
Leigh Hunt (Eva Davis)
Elizabeth Inchbald (ADKreader)
Francis, Lord Jeffrey (Devorah Allen)
Douglas Jerrold (Devorah Allen)
Samuel Johnson (Nemo)
Ben Jonson (Sonia)
John Keats (Eva Davis)
John Keble (ADKreader)
Charles Kingsley (Nemo)
Charles Lamb (Eva Davis)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (ADKreader)
Walter Savage Landor (VfkaBT)
Charles Lever (Devorah Allen)
Matthew Gregory Lewis (Tomas Peter)
John Gibson Lockhart (Robert Robinson)
Sir Richard Lovelace (Devorah Allen)
Edward, Lord Lytton (Michael Fassio)
Thomas Babington Macaulay (MaryAnn)
William Maginn (MaryAnn)
Francis Mahony (Father Prout) (MaryAnn)
Frederick Marryat (MaryAnn)
Harriet Martineau (ADKreader)
Frederick Denison Maurice (VfkaBT)
John Milton (Michael Fassio)
Mary Russell Mitford (BettyB)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (ADKreader)
Thomas Moore (Nemo)
Hannah More (BettyB)
Sir Thomas More (Larry Wilson)
Caroline Norton (BettyB)
Thomas Otway (Greg Giordano)
Samuel Pepys (Greg Giordano)
Alexander Pope (Michael Fassio)
Bryan Waller Procter (ADKreader)
Thomas de Quincey (Greg Giordano)
Ann Radcliffe (Sonia)
Sir Walter Raleigh (VfkaBT)
Charles Reade (Robert Robinson)
Samuel Richardson (Tomas Peter)
Samuel Rogers (Nemo)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Emma Charlotte)
Richard Savage (Michael Fassio)
Sir Walter Scott (Emma Charlotte)
William Shakespeare (Rosemarie DeSapio)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Tomas Peter)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Eva Davis)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (VfkaBT)
Sir Philip Sidney (Sonia)
Horace Smith (Greg Giordano)
Sydney Smith (Greg Giordano)
Tobias Smollett (Tomas Peter)
Robert Southey (Greg Giordano)
Edmund Spenser (Steve C)
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (Sonia)
Sir Richard Steele (Greg Giordano)
Laurence Sterne (Tomas Peter)
Sir John Suckling (Greg Giordano)
Jonathan Swift (Michael Fassio)
William Makepeace Thackeray (Michael Fassio)
James Thomson (Michael Fassio)
Anthony Trollope (Michael Fassio)
Edmund Waller (Sonia)
Horace Walpole (ADKreader)
Izaac Walton (Steve C)
John Wilson (ADKreader)
Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood) (BettyB)
William Wordsworth (Eva Davis)
Sir Henry Wotton (Larry Wilson)
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